Meed | Jindal confirms hydrogen-ready DRI orders with Danieli

Jindal confirms hydrogen-ready DRI orders with Danieli

28 May 2024

Jindal Steel & Power has made an order with Italy's Danieli for two units of hydrogen-ready direct reduced iron (DRI) plants each with a capacity of 2.5 million tonnes a year (mt/y) for its new production hub in Oman.

An order for a third unit with a similar capacity is also being planned, Vidya Ratan Sharma, vice chairman at Jindal Steel & Power, said at the ongoing 5th Daniel Innovation event in Udine, Italy.

The client is Vulcan Green Steel, a newly established part of the Jindal Steel Group.

The new hydrogen-ready direct reduction plants will be installed in Duqm, in the Al Wusta region in Oman, where it will feed a new electric steelmaking complex.

Danieli said in December that the complex will be a hub for the production of green steel, taking advantage of the availability of natural gas and renewable energies that will be converted into hydrogen.

The new Energiron direct reduction plant –technology jointly developed by Tenova and Danieli– will start operation with a natural gas feed, and will begin using hydrogen in blend as hydrogen becomes available on-site.

Hybrid by design, hydrogen-ready Energiron technology makes it possible to use natural gas as a reducing agent with the possibility to use hydrogen up to 100%, or any mix of these, according to hydrogen availability.

In December, Vulcan Green Steel (VGS) broke ground on its project to build a green steel production facility in Oman's Special Economic Zone at Duqm (Sezad).

Jindal Steel announced an investment of up to $3bn in the Duqm green steel production facility last December.

The planned facility, covering 2 square kilometres in Sezad, will have two production lines of 2.5 million metric tonnes a year each, comprising direct reduction iron, an electric arc furnace and a hot strip mill.

Set for completion by 2026, the planned facility will primarily utilise green hydrogen to produce 5 million metric tonnes a year of green steel.

This will make it the world’s largest renewable energy-based green steel manufacturing complex upon commissioning.

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Jennifer Aguinaldo